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19Is framing irrational?Philosophical Psychology 36 (6): 1221-1225. 2023.“Frame It Again. New Tools for Rational Decision-Making” by José Luis Bermúdez is a powerful defense of a traditionally unappreciated aspect of human cognition: framing effects, namely, the tendenc...
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428Introspection and Belief: Failures of Introspective Belief FormationReview of Philosophy and Psychology (1): 165-184. 2023.Introspection has traditionally been defined as a privileged way of obtaining beliefs about one’s occurrent mental states, and the idea that it is psychologically and epistemically different from non-introspective belief formation processes has been widely defended. At the same time, philosophers and cognitive scientists alike have pointed out the unreliability of introspective reports in consciousness research. In this paper, I will argue that this dissonance in the literature can be explained …Read more
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242What is left of irrationality?Philosophical Psychology 36 (4): 808-818. 2023.In his recent book Bad Beliefs and Why They Happen to Good People, Neil Levy argues that conspiracy theories result from the same rational processes that underlie epistemic success. While we think many of Levy’s points are valuable, like his criticism of the myth of individual cognition and his emphasis on the importance of one’s social epistemic environment, we believe that his account overlooks some important aspects. We argue that social deference is an active process, and as such can be help…Read more
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39Book Symposium: Philosophy of PsychedelicsPhilosophy and the Mind Sciences 3. 2022.This special issue focuses on the Philosophy of Psychedelics by Chris Letheby in the form of a book symposium. Introduced by Matthew Johnson, Letheby presents the main claims of this book that explores the apparent conflict between psychedelic therapy and naturalism in a précis. Seven contributions criticize, expand or comment on Letheby's arguments, focusing either on his proposed mechanism for psychedelic therapy or on the epistemic implications. The symposium concludes with Letheby’s repli…Read more
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27When seeing is not believing: A mechanistic basis for predictive divergenceConsciousness and Cognition 102 103334. 2022.
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15Belief Now, True Belief Later: The epistemic advantage of self-related insights in psychedelic-assisted therapyPhilosophy and the Mind Sciences 3. 2022.Chris Letheby’s defence of psychedelic therapy hinges on the premise that psychedelic-facilitated insights about the self are in a better epistemic position than those about the external world. In this commentary, I argue that such a claim is not sufficiently defended. More precisely, I argue that one element is underexplored in Letheby’s otherwise compelling picture: namely, that unlike new beliefs about the external world, beliefs about oneself have the capacity to turn into self-fulfilling pr…Read more
Chiara Caporuscio
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Charité Universitätsmedizin BerlinPost-doctoral Fellow
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Universität Erlangen-NürnbergPost-doctoral Fellow (Part-time)
Erlangen and Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany